Dr. Pastrami

Lara Rabinovitch
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Welcome to Dr Pastrami, the podcast about Jewish food. Join host Dr. Lara Rabinovitch, a historian and 20-year veteran of food media, as she interviews chefs, cookbook authors, and other tastemakers for intimate and in-depth conversations. For anyone interested in restaurants, the culinary world, travel, celebrity chefs, and tradition. For full video episodes watch and subscribe to the Dr. Pastrami Substack or YouTube. Also available on Spotify, Apple Podcasts and iHeartradio. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Episodes

  1. 3d ago

    Bagel Boss, Sam Silverman

    Sam Silverman left his job on Wall Street to start New York’s first bagel festival, BagelFest, held every November at Citi Field Stadium, and now also in Los Angeles at various locations in the Spring. The festival attracts thousands of people from all over the world for tastings and competitions like “Schmear of the Year.” Sam also runs bagel walking tours and bagel-making classes in which participants learn about topics like the history of bagels dating back to Medieval Poland and the Yiddish-speaking bagel unions of the Lower East Side of the early twentieth century. In this episode, we discuss these topics, as well as others, like how technological advances in baking led to calamities like the chocolate chip bagel. Our conversation also gets a bit heated as we tackle what makes a bagel Jewish, how to distinguish a bagel from other ringed breads, and, most contentious of all, which cities and shops make the best bagels. Episode also available on the Dr. Pastrami Substack, Spotify, Apple Podcasts and wherever you get your podcasts. Photo credit Jeff Robins Welcome to Dr Pastrami, the podcast about Jewish food. Join host Dr. Lara Rabinovitch, a historian and 20-year veteran of food media, as she interviews chefs, cookbook authors, and other tastemakers for intimate and in-depth conversations. For full video episodes watch and subscribe to the Dr. Pastrami Substack or YouTube. Also available on Spotify, Apple Podcasts and iHeartradio. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

    Bagel Boss, Sam Silverman

  2. Sep 29

    Easy Breezy Cookbook Queen, Adeena Sussman

    Before the chef Adeena Sussman became a New York Times bestselling author, she was a ghostwriter or co-author of dozens of celebrity cookbooks, including the supermodel Chrissy Teigen's. On this episode of the Dr. Pastrami podcast, Adeena and host Lara Rabinovitch talk about all this, plus her latest cookbook, Zariz: 100 Easy Breezy, Tel-Aviv-y Recipes. Adeena has also shared with us an exclusive recipe from Zariz for Eggplant Schnitzel on the Dr. Pastrami Substack. Subscribe to Dr. Pastrami wherever you get your podcasts - that's Spotify, Apple Podcasts, etc. This episode is sponsored by Our Sinatra, A Musical Celebration. Tickets at ourSinatra.com. Welcome to Dr Pastrami, the podcast about Jewish food. Join host Dr. Lara Rabinovitch, a historian and 20-year veteran of food media, as she interviews chefs, cookbook authors, and other tastemakers for intimate and in-depth conversations. For full video episodes watch and subscribe to the Dr. Pastrami Substack or YouTube. Also available on Spotify, Apple Podcasts and iHeartradio. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

    Easy Breezy Cookbook Queen, Adeena Sussman

  3. Aug 27

    Celebrity Content Creator. Jamie Milne of ‘Everything Delish’

    Remember Tik Tok pasta, that baked feta dish we all started making during the pandemic? We have Jamie Milne–aka the Jewish internet food celebrity “Everything Delish”–to thank for that viral recipe. Five years and five million followers later, the Toronto native, 33, has published her first cookbook, Everything Delish, featuring a riff on her Bubbe’s classic roast chicken on the cover. But unlike other social media influencers, Jamie’s not just garnering clicks and likes: she’s implicitly changing the way people think about Jewish food. For example, when Jamie started sharing family recipes for Passover, like her Matzah Crunch, her non-Jewish followers responded by buying the unleavened bread for the first time, telling her how much they loved the toffee dessert. Everything Delish, her first cookbook, comes out September 1st and features recipes like Jaime’s Breakfast Crunch Wrap, Creamy Miso and Shallot Pasta with Crispy Mushrooms, ​​and anti-inflammatory recipes inspired by Jamie’s experience with endometriosis. Want to learn more about Jamie’s incredible story? That’s all in this episode, where Jamie and host, Lara Rabinovitch, PhD, have an intimate conversation about food, family and what to cook this Fall—including recipes for the upcoming holidays. Find an excerpt and exclusive recipe from Jamie's cookbook, "Love-at-First-Bite Wings with Hot Honey Buffalo Sauce (Fan Favorite)" on the Dr. Pastrami Substack. Episode also available on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Thank you to OurSinatra.Com for sponsoring this episode. Welcome to Dr Pastrami, the podcast about Jewish food. Join host Dr. Lara Rabinovitch, a historian and 20-year veteran of food media, as she interviews chefs, cookbook authors, and other tastemakers for intimate and in-depth conversations. For full video episodes watch and subscribe to the Dr. Pastrami Substack or YouTube. Also available on Spotify, Apple Podcasts and iHeartradio. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

    Celebrity Content Creator. Jamie Milne of ‘Everything Delish’

  4. Aug 5

    Episode 1: Legendary Cookbook Author Joan Nathan

    In this episode, we have the pathbreaking author Joan Nathan, who has published over 12 cookbooks, including her latest memoir, My Life in Recipes, and earned many awards for her work. Joan pioneered the study of Jewish cuisine by adopting an anthropological approach, treating recipe development as an opportunity to explore the history and culture of a diasporic people. Her cookbooks became bestsellers in the United States when the iconic editor Judith Jones asked Joan to write about “how Jews have changed food in America and how America has changed Jewish food.” Here, Joan shares several stories with Lara from her early career researching the foodways of logging camps or what it was like to have Julia Child as a guest on her PBS cooking show—they actually went kosher food shopping together on camera. Joan also tells Lara about the time she laced her matzo balls with marijuana, and some of her tried and true secrets for hosting the best dinner parties. Rate, review and subscribe for more. Follow Dr. Pastrami on Instagram, Tik Tok, and full video episode on YouTube. Welcome to Dr Pastrami, the podcast about Jewish food. Join host Dr. Lara Rabinovitch, a historian and 20-year veteran of food media, as she interviews chefs, cookbook authors, and other tastemakers for intimate and in-depth conversations. For full video episodes watch and subscribe to the Dr. Pastrami Substack or YouTube. Also available on Spotify, Apple Podcasts and iHeartradio. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

    Episode 1: Legendary Cookbook Author Joan Nathan
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About

Welcome to Dr Pastrami, the podcast about Jewish food. Join host Dr. Lara Rabinovitch, a historian and 20-year veteran of food media, as she interviews chefs, cookbook authors, and other tastemakers for intimate and in-depth conversations. For anyone interested in restaurants, the culinary world, travel, celebrity chefs, and tradition. For full video episodes watch and subscribe to the Dr. Pastrami Substack or YouTube. Also available on Spotify, Apple Podcasts and iHeartradio. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Information

  • Creator
    Lara Rabinovitch
  • Years Active
    2026
  • Episodes
    4
  • Rating
    Explicit
  • Copyright
    © Lara Rabinovitch
  • Show Website
    Dr. Pastrami